Haas Automation, the American machine tool company owned by F1 team owner Gene Haas, has strongly rejected claims that it broke U.S. sanctions on Russia. Haas issued a statement in which it says that a report this week from American broadcaster PBS claiming that it had provided machines and parts to Russia in violation of US export control and sanctions regulations is "simply false, both in its overall impression and in many of its particular statements". The PBS News Hour story alleges that Haas Automation – a partner of the Haas F1 team – made at least 18 shipments of precision machining tools to the Russian arms industry from March through October of last year. Haas denied...
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